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Prefab: Greenbuild's New Cool

Turf HouseIt's gone from tacky to trendy, from lowest common denominator to highest possible quality. Prefab is now not only cool, but green. Find out why.

Simple Tips for Saving Energy

Before you start drawing up plans for a solar-energy farm in your backyard, first consider the host of smaller steps that can significantly lower your energy costs. Often, the biggest energy savers are also the most obvious.

Puritan Pride

Boston skylineThe intersection of traditional New England values and renewable energy has led, in Massachusetts, to some very clean design.

Introduction to Green Building

House in hand"Green building" is not a controlled term, but in general, it refers to any method of new building construction, or existing structure remodeling, which incorporates technologies designed to reduce the building's environmental impact while maintaining or improving the quality of life for residents.

Corporate America and Green Building

RE building closeupAt home, we have a compost pile and a recycling bin. We’d never dream of traipsing over to Whole Foods without our own reusable cloth grocery bag. Our sleek hybrid car is even all the buzz in the neighborhood. But when we get to our high-rise office building for work every day, we find ourselves part of a much more extensive carbon footprint– the one created by large commercial spaces.

The House of Very Green Gables

Architects in the Northeast are learning to incorporate the ideals and technologies behind green building into renovations and restorations of historic properties. So what's the big deal?

18Seconds.Org

Fluorescent bulbA new push to get Compact Flourescent Light Bulbs (CFL)s into the American mindset.

It's Not That Kind of Decathlon: MIT's Seventh Solar Home

The net zero energy home MIT submitted to the DOE's 2007 Solar Decathlon was the university's seventh solar home.